Paul Ryan's Irish Amnesia (NY Times).
This is hilarious ... President Obama does "Between Two Ferns" with Zach Galifianakis (Upworthy).
Unprecedented interruption of Supreme Court proceedings (Nation of Change)
Hollywood originally founded to escape Thomas Edison and avoid his patents? This and other weird facts about individual states in America ... (Huffington Post).
Small (major?) victory for President Obama ... House Republicans to introduce 3 bills that improve/clarify aspects of Obamacare (PoliticsUSA).
WHEN MARKETS GO WRONG
12-year-olds (and younger) picking tobacco (The Investigative Fund).
Fished out? The world's fish are in danger (Barry Ritholtz).
This is just one of many reasons why private prisons are simply wrong (NY Post / LA Times).
Subsidizing the 1 percent ... Big businesses receive at least 75 percent of state and local development subsidies, which comes to $110 billion in corporate gifts from the state (Good Jobs First).
Yes, free trade agreements have hurt American workers (Economic Policy Institute).
The "carried interest" tax loophole allows big financial players to treat their income as "special" income, and should be eliminated (Robert Reich).
MARKET TALK ... TROUBLE AROUND THE CORNER
New doomsday poll: 99% chance of 2014 market crash (Market Watch).
"In-the-know" insiders are dumping stocks (Market Watch).
BY THE NUMBERS
The Koch brothers spend more than double what the top 10 unions spend on campaigns (The Investigative Fund).
The F-35 has cost the U.S. taxpayer about $11,000 each, or well over $1 trillion (Political).
Apparently these three questions will tell you if your relationship will last (Lifehacker).
At least 7,100 deaths annually (and perhaps as many as 17,000 deaths) are the likely result of 25 states deciding to reject Medicaid expansion under Obamacare (Physicians for a National Health Program).
WHY INCOME-WEALTH GAPS MATTER
Income gap meet longevity gap (NY Times)
Where income is higher, life spans are longer (NY Times).
Slide Show: Two counties, separated by fortune (NY Times).
Billionaires with big ideas are privatizing American science (NY Times).
RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND CRIMEA
This Time profile of Putin's man in Crimea suggests that Sergei Aksyonov just might be Ukraine's worst nightmare (Time).
How to deal with Ukraine obsessed Russia ... let's punish Putin, the oligarchs and their shopaholic wives (The Telegraph).
25 questions to test how much you know about the Tsars, Russia and it's history (Christian Science Monitor).
MISCELLANEOUS
MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski calls Sarah Palin a 'multi-million dollar moron' (Bizpac Review).
Jon Stewart goes after the Far Right's logic for opposing how food stamps are used (Upworthy).
How to blow off the Religious right-wingers' who claim they are being persecuted (Salon).
Mexico's craziest drug lord - Nazario Moreno, head of the Knights Templar - 'died' twice and used to dress as God (Time).
Rush Limbaugh: The election of America's first black president has "paralyzed" Washington and the Republican Party (PoliticsUSA).
- Mark
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